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7:15 AM ET, April 21, 2015

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times, Fox News strike deals for anti-Clinton research  —  The New York Times and Fox News have made exclusive agreements with a conservative author for early access to his opposition research on Hillary Clinton, a move that has confounded members of the Clinton campaign and some Times reporters …
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
George Soros' son builds a PAC for Jewish voters  —  The son of Democratic mega-donor George Soros is gearing up to play a more active role in the 2016 election with the launch of new political action committee focused on representing the views of Jewish Americans — beyond foreign policy.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Jabs GOP Candidates for Focusing on Her and Not Issues  —  During a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday, Hillary Clinton actually took a few questions from the press, addressing her conservative critics in a more direct way than she had previously done in her still-nascent run for president.
Discussion: FOX News Radio and CNN
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Just Took A Shot At GOP Plans To Cut Social Security
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
David Koch Signals a Favorite: Scott Walker  —  Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
G.O.P. Donors Signal a Favorite: Wisconsin Governor
Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast:
Roseanne Barr on Losing Her Sight, Smoking Weed, Rejecting Feminism, and Not Voting For Hillary  —  As a documentary of her 2012 presidential run is released, Roseanne Barr talks about political power, mortality, and why a Hillary Clinton win wouldn't be as symbolic as many hope.
Discussion: Mediaite, Althouse and WHNT-TV
Gaby Wood / Telegraph:
Toni Morrison interview: on racism, her new novel and Marlon Brando  —  Age hasn't dimmed the fire in Toni Morrison, 84.  The unwavering voice of black America talks about her latest novel and what it will take for racism to be a thing of the past  —  Toni Morrison is, without a doubt, a world-class novelist.
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Oliver Laughland / Guardian:
Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman’
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Sexy Conservatives Will Out-Breed Barren Liberals  —  The last time some Twitter leftist sneered at me and called me a “breeder,” I wondered whether this collectivist genius considered not reproducing to be a wise long-term strategy.  The fact is that in America, most of the time it's the traditional …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Top Christie ally defects to Bush  —  As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tries for a political revival with New Hampshire town halls and Iowa diner stops, he won't have one of his longtime friends and political advisers at his side.  —  New Jersey state Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos …
Josh Middleton / Philadelphia Magazine:
PA High School Students Organize “Anti-Gay Day” in Response to National Day of Silence  —  McGuffey High School in Claysville, Pennsylvania made headlines over the weekend when a group of students organized an “Anti-Gay Day' in direct retaliation to the LGBT youth-supportive National Day of Silence (NDOS) on Friday.
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Baltimore Sun:
Police report says Freddie Gray had knife, arrested ‘without incident’  —  City police wrote in court documents that Freddie Gray was arrested “without force or incident” for having a switchblade knife and suffered a medical emergency during transport.  —  The documents provide the first account …
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Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray in custody sparks call for independent inquiry
Discussion: CNN, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
New York Times:
1.5 Million Missing Black Men  —  For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men.  The remaining men - 1.5 million of them - are, in a sense, missing.  —  Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo.
Discussion: Philly.com
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
U.S. carrier moving off coast of Yemen to block Iranian arms shipments  —  WASHINGTON — The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has moved off the coast of Yemen to prepare to intercept potential shipments of Iranian weapons to the rebels fighting the U.S.-backed government of Yemen, Pentagon officials said Monday.
Discussion: The Week and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
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Fox News:
US aircraft carrier sent to block Iranian shipments to Yemen
Discussion: Reuters, Infowars, PUNDIT PRESS and Niqnaq
Tom Tancredo / WND:
WILL OBAMA ORDER MILITARY ATTACK ON ISRAEL?  —  Exclusive: Tom Tancredo on potential Iran-defending action: ‘Who would stop him?’  —  Tom Tancredo is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and founder and co-chairman of Team America PAC.  He is also a former five-term congressman and presidential candidate.
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Amir Taheri / New York Post:
Why Arabs distrust Obama
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
68K sign up during ObamaCare's extra period  —  More than 68,000 people have signed up for healthcare during ObamaCare's extra enrollment period so far this year, the federal government announced Monday.  —  People who lack insurance have 10 more days to buy coverage through the federal marketplace …
Dana Somberg / Jerusalem Post:
Rivlin refuses meeting in Israel with former US president Jimmy Carter … Diplomatic sources says Foreign Ministry recommended president not meet with Carter in light of his “anti-Israel” positions in recent years.  —  President Reuven Rivlin has refused to meet with former US president Jimmy Carter during …
Sophie Curtis / Telegraph:
PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain  —  “Natural body identification” could one day replace passwords and other modern methods of identification, claims PayPal developer chief  —  PayPal is working on a new generation of embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices …
Discussion: Infowars and FOX News Radio
The Right Scoop:
FRANKLIN GRAHAM: WE NEED TO STOP MUSLIM IMMIGRATION FROM COUNTRIES WITH ACTIVE TERROR CELLS  —  Franklin Graham didn't mince any words today with Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on the 30 Christians from Ethiopia that were slaughtered this weekend.  He both condemned the White House …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Putin's Action Hero: How Steven Seagal Became the Kremlin's Unlikeliest Envoy  —  Vladimir Putin knew his relationship with the United States was nearing breaking point when he met Barack Obama in Lough Erne, a picturesque lakeside golf resort in Northern Ireland, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in June 2013.
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Wildmon: The Left Hates Us Because We 'Represent God's Message Of A Moral Standard Having To Do With Sexuality'  —  The American Family Association's Tim Wildmon was the guest on “WallBuilders Live” today, discussing his organization's “bigotry map,” which it recently released in response …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Clinton aide admits they SCREEN ‘everyday Americans’ for Hillary's campaign events as some ordinary people in a New Hampshire bakery - the employees! - refuse to shake her hand  — But a cashier told Daily Mail Online that some of the kitchen staff 'didn't want to come out to meet Hillary' because 'they just don't like her'
 
 
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Oliver Strand / New York Times:
Tartine Expansion Plans Include New York
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
Daily Mail:
Meet up: Ex-BNP thug Richard Edmonds (centre wearing glasses) …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Spectator
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans look to lift spending caps
Discussion: Daily Kos and BarbWire.com
Whit Richardson / The Portland Press Herald:
Payday at the mill  —  How sophisticated financiers used …
Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
‘Poor Door’ Building Draws 88,000 Applicants for 55 Rental Units
Discussion: New York Magazine
Alexandra Robbins / Washington Post:
Nurses make fun of their dying patients. That's okay.
Discussion: Instapundit and Althouse
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Who Published Story On Okla. Deputy Resign Suddenly From Newspaper
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Republicans assail race disclosures in gun purchases
Discussion: Fox News
Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:
Memorial tree for Michael Brown cut in half, stone memorial missing
Quin Hillyer / National Review:
The IRS Assures an Atheist Group It Will Monitor Churches
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
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